August 2026
Richard Slominsky won this round on September 6, 2026. There were 31 goos.
Players this round: Russ Wilhelm (31 goos solved, a perfect score) and Richard Slominsky (29 goos solved).
Penny Johnson Jerald
She isn't a lawyer from North Carolina. She's a TV actress who must have so enjoyed playing a ship captain and eventual wife in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine that she went on to play a different kind of captain in Castle, a different kind of wife in 24, and in a different kind of Star Trek in The Orville. Go »
George H. Ross
He isn't an uncle from Pennsylvania. He's a corporate lawyer most famous for his advice about which apprentice to fire. Go »
Willie Huber
He wasn't a lawyer from North Carolina. He was a German-Canadian all-star who was the biggest thing in the NHL. Go »
Johnny "J"
He wasn't a diplomat from New York. He was a massively successful record producer from South Central L.A., whose association with Death Row Records became a sad predictor of his fate. Go »
Alice Hamilton
She wasn't a banker from New York. She was Harvard's first female faculty member and an industrial health expert who helped America get the lead out. Go »
John Langdon Down
He wasn't a politician from New Hampshire. He was the British physician who first described a common syndrome, though he might not have used such racist terms to classify it if he'd known that his own grandson would be born with it. Ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah! Go »
William Jackson Harper
He isn't a secretary from South Carolina. He's an actor who stayed in a Mexican resort that turned out to be a place far more good for his health than the Swedish commune he visited a few summers ago. Go »
John Walton
He wasn't a surveyor from Georgia. He was a Silver Star vet, aviation enthusiast, and venture capitalist who used his family's retail fortune to fund scholarships. Go »
Frances Benjamin Johnston
She wasn't a polymath from Pennsylvania. She was a journalist who discovered a love of photography as art, who used her connections with the White House and other institutions to take pictures of such notable Americans as Mark Twain, William Howard Taft, Edith Wharton, George Washington Carver, Susan B. Anthony, Daniel Coit Gilman, Booker T. Washington, George Dewey, Isadora Duncan, and Teddy, Edith & Alice Roosevelt. Go »
Benedict Wong
His problem is that two other somebodies share his name: His MCU co-star and his MCU character. Go »
Jean Stapleton
Her real family included opera singing, Vaudeville performing, and stage acting. Her screen Family sang about days that were and called her a dingbat. Go »
Kathryn Stockett
The reception greeting her second book has been the opposite of calamitous, which should be helpful in making it a success like her first. Go »
Ms. Rachel
She has sung to toddlers billions of times on YouTube, but her outspoken criticism of ICE and Israel has made her voice controversial. Go »
John Byrne
This controversial creator has written and drawn many famous superheroes, but he's most famous for burning down the house (of ideas) in X-Men comics: He created or co-created Dark Phoenix, Days of Future Past, Kitty Pryde, Bishop, Alpha Flight, and Wolverine's brown costume. Go »
Paul King
This British director wrangled a CGI bear, a zoo's worth of sketch comics, and a singing candymaker to much success. Who's the king? Go »
Jimothy
This pint-sized procyonid has taken the Emerald City by storm, earning an honorary degree from the University of Washington, a themed night from the Mariners, and recognition by the city council. Go »
Francisco Franco
Despite the hopes of Francophiles everywhere, this Spaniard stubbornly remains dead. Go »
Samuel Hill and John Nicholson
Spending the night together in a Wisconsin hotel led this pair to a lifelong partnership. They might have even spent the night with you. Go »
Sascha Konietzko
This German industrial leader was anti-fascist long before Antifa was dreamt up, but that hasn't stopped him from being accused of Nazism on account of his nationality, the darkness of his frequently political lyrics, and his popularity among the Columbine shooters. Then again, he's also been long accused of wanting to kill motherfucking Depeche Mode. Go »
Hayden Panettiere
She received a heroic reception for singing in Nashville, despite murdering in Italy and screaming in sequels. Go »
Count Binface
This novelty candidate has become a rising star(man) in British politics by promising that a vote for him would not be wasteful. Go »
Anson Mount
His career was once stalled at a crossroads, but it took off like Hell on wheels once he got the part of Star Trek's first captain. Go »
Nate Bargatze
This comedian has won a lot of bread for his family back home in Nashville since playing the first president in a New York sketch show. Go »
George de Mestral
This Swiss inventor turned his irritation at removing burrs from his dog into a fashionable fastener for astronauts and athletes, though it took him a decade of trial and error to get a grip on the precise mechanics. Go »
Sophia Bush
She's been a Brooke on a hill, a Lindsay in four Chicagos, and best as Sam. Go »
Ed Roth
This weirdo was the daddy of hot rod art, with a rat-forward menagerie of grotesques to show for it. Go »
Adrien Brody
He's been wrecked and ghosted, spent a night in Manhattan and Paris, worn a necklace and a jacket, chased Predators and King Kong to see how they run, brutally called a blonde a dummy, and detected a song played on piano on a Cadillac radio. Go »
Joshua Waitzkin
He was knighted as a child prodigy with a famous book and movie that compared him to a king of the sport, and later recorded tutorials for a video game that made him a pawn of players eager to learn his strategies. Go »
Dolly Parton
This week, the world joins Tennessee in mourning this country music legend, popular actress, brand entrepreneur, prolific philanthropist, and by endless accounts, thoroughly decent human being. Go »
Rick Baker
Hollywood's go-to creature maker won seven makeup Oscars, for a werewolf, a wolfman, a sasquatch, a grinch, alien agents, a vampire actor, and a fat guy. Go »
